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password cracking guide

The goal is to unify all of the good information found in various bits and pieces into 1 large document. This document is for people who want to learn to the how and why of password cracking. There is a lot of information being presented and you should READ IT ALL BEFORE you attempted doing anything documented here. I do my best to provide step by step instructions along with the reasons for doing it this way. Other times I will point to a particular website where you find the information. In those cases someone else has done what I attempting and did a good or great job and I didn’t want to steal their hard work. These instructions have several excerpts from a combination of posts from pureh@te, granger53, irongeek, PrairieFire, and stasik. I would also like to thank each of them and others for the help they have provided me on the BackTrack forum.

I had to compress the document so I could attach it. The document as it stands now is 93K. Please let me know if what I have is wrong, or if there is a better way to do something, or if I am missing something. I am planning on making enhancements as people make me aware of them.

Changes from version 0.1
* Added a section on plain-text.info
* Added a section on using john the ripper with a custom character list
* Added Xploitz’s and pureh@te’s wordlists

Changes from version 0.2 - 200 downloads
* Added sections on using ophcrack
* Added sections on Cain and Able under windows
* Fixed a typo
* New html format

Changes from version 0.3 - 410 downloads
* Moved some content to where it should have been
* Added a section on crunch
* Fixed typos
* Fixed a whole lot of html issues
* Slightly rearranged things to flow better

Changes from version 0.4 - 877 downloads
* Added a section on cached credentials
* Expanded the Novell section
* Fixed typos
* Fixed a couple of html errors
* Moved some things around
* New utility to dump passwords

Changes from version 0.5 - 1573 downloads
* added wpa pw-inspector command
* added a wordlist manipulation section
* added usage of fgdump
* added rcracki section
* added a sample hash.txt to play with
* john can be used for input to aircrack-ng
* moved a few things around for a better flow

Changes from version 0.6 - 422 downloads
* added a section on generating a wordlist from a website
* added head, tail, and sed commands to wordlist manipulation
* added a section on xhdrya (pointing to Pureh@te's video)
* added a section on gsecdump
* added a section on medusa
* added a section on cisco
* expanded the crunch section
* moved everything around in an effort to make things easier to find
* the dumbforce and knownforce are not finished